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From: wayne abroue <plettpc@gmail.com>
To: The list for a Better Approach To Mobile Ad-hoc Networking
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Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] batman-adv 2011.2.0 hop somtimes does not work
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 18:54:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKeC-QHjYZBnCm93Gt606geY1-nXk1eZPnRTifkOD3F-hO0-rA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E5E64EF.2010706@robotech.de>

On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Tobias <tracer@robotech.de> wrote:
> Am 31.08.2011 17:57, schrieb wayne abroue:
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 11:55 AM, Marek Lindner<lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
>>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>> At first everything seemed to work. A node on the one end could ping a
>>>> node on the other end over the mesh-network. The ping was hopping from
>>>> node to node as expected.
>>>>
>>>> But sometimes some paths do not work anymore.
>>>>
>>>> Some nodes can only reach their direct neighbors via a "normal ping". A
>>>> ping to a node via one hop does not work. A "batctl ping" does work!
>>>>
>>>> This only happens to parts of the network and is not permanent. If i
>>>> wait it will recover, but then the problem appears at another node.
>>>
>>> since "batctl ping" works I'd say your mesh works fine - you have a
>>> problem in
>>> your higher layers. Maybe a mac address collision or an ARP timeout ?
>>>
>>> Can you provide specific examples we can go through ? For instance,
>>> provide
>>> the batctl ping output to the neighbor in question, the ping error
>>> message
>>> (does it say timeout / host could not be found / etc), a batctl
>>> traceroute to
>>> the neighbor in question and the output of the global translation table.
>>>
>>> Are you trying to ping a 'fixed' node or a node that is roaming ?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Marek
>>>
>>>
>> I'd also check signal strength,, have experienced this  when levels
>> are fluctuating, ie: batctl ping works, ip not. then comes back.
>>
>> Wayne A
>
> Hi Wayne,
>
> the signal level is not very good - but it should be sufficient. (around
> 40-60%)
>
> Even when i keep both pings running at the same time, only the "batctl p"
> works.
>
> Tobias
>

Thats your problem,, I have experienced the same in the past,, You
will find access very erratic,, upgrade your antenna if you can.

Wayne A

  reply	other threads:[~2011-08-31 16:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-30 22:53 [B.A.T.M.A.N.] batman-adv 2011.2.0 hop somtimes does not work Tobias
2011-08-30 23:07 ` clownix
2011-08-31  9:55 ` Marek Lindner
2011-08-31 15:57   ` wayne abroue
2011-08-31 16:07     ` Antonio Quartulli
2011-08-31 16:16       ` Marek Lindner
2011-08-31 16:18         ` Antonio Quartulli
2011-08-31 17:05           ` Tobias
2011-08-31 21:55             ` Antonio Quartulli
2011-08-31 22:14               ` Javier Cardona
2011-09-01  8:15               ` Tobias
2011-09-01 15:55                 ` Antonio Quartulli
2011-09-01 21:11                   ` Tobias
2011-09-01 21:35                     ` Antonio Quartulli
2011-09-01 22:45                       ` Tobias
2011-09-05  8:06                         ` Marek Lindner
2011-09-06  9:06                           ` Tobias
2011-09-06 18:33                             ` Marek Lindner
2011-09-07  8:00                               ` Tobias
2011-09-13 11:18                                 ` Marek Lindner
2011-09-13 12:09                                   ` Andrew Lunn
2011-09-14 20:54                                   ` Tobias
2011-09-19 22:45                                     ` Antonio Quartulli
     [not found]                                       ` <4E7ED5D3.2000600@wifibot.com>
     [not found]                                         ` <20110925073942.GA2993@ritirata.org>
     [not found]                                           ` <4E7EE7A9.7010309@wifibot.com>
2011-09-25 16:05                                             ` Antonio Quartulli
2011-09-25 16:06                                               ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH] batman-adv: Chichek hunt started! Verbose patch Antonio Quartulli
2011-08-31 16:44     ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] batman-adv 2011.2.0 hop somtimes does not work Tobias
2011-08-31 16:54       ` wayne abroue [this message]
2011-08-31 16:36 ` Tobias
2011-10-19 13:36 ` Antonio Quartulli
2011-09-26 21:07 laurent
2011-09-26 21:14 ` laurent
2011-09-26 22:48   ` Antonio Quartulli
2011-10-10 12:08     ` Antonio Quartulli
2011-09-27  6:01 ` Andrew Lunn
2011-09-27  6:39   ` laurent

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